Video: A Declassified Alternate Survival Guide with SIX's Jana Larell Gover
Glover is the alternate for four roles in Six on Broadway.
By: Joey Mervis Jun. 13, 2025
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How do Broadway understudies survive? The gig isn't easy! Understudies and swings are some of the hardest working performers on Broadway (and beyond), having to be ready to go on at a moment's notice, often for multiple tracks. Think you could swing it?
In this special episode, we're checking in with Jana Larell Glover, who is the alternate for four of the Six queen in Six- Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Anna of Cleves, and Catherine Parr. What's it like covering 2/3's of the show's characters?
"Because I cover more than half of the cast, what works for me is learning all of the lines and knowing all of the harmony parts," she told BroadwayWorld. "Because I'm the dance captain, I know all of the formations and traffic patterns, so when I'm feeling lost onstage, if I don't know where I am, I do the math really quickly in my brain and I can plug myself right where I need to be."
Glover, a Point Park University alum, is making her Broadway debut in Six. Other credits include: Six (Boleyn Tour), Memphis (LPPAC).
